Steven James

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2001
  • Latest Book:
    February 2026
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Full Series List in Order

Blur Trilogy

1 - Blur (Jun-2014)
2 - Fury (May-2015)
3 - Curse (May-2016)

The Bowers Files

1 - The Pawn (Feb-2007)
2 - The Rook (Aug-2008)
3 - The Knight (Aug-2009)
4 - The Bishop (Aug-2010)
5 - The Queen (Sep-2011)
6 - Opening Moves (Sep-2012)
7 - The King (Jul-2013)
8 - Checkmate (Dec-2014)
9 - Every Crooked Path (Dec-2015)
10 - Every Deadly Kiss (Jul-2017)
11 - Every Wicked Man (Sep-2018)

A Jevin Banks Novel

1 - Placebo (Nov-2012)
2 - Singularity (Nov-2013)

Travis Brock

1 - Broker of Lies (Apr-2023)
2 - Fatal Domain (Apr-2024)

Books in Order: 27 titles

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  • Too Cute Tales

  • Rift

    Some doors were never meant to be opened. Some tales were never meant to be set free. When seventeen-year-old Sahara O'Saughnessy discovers a rift into the realm of lore, the most haunting stories she's been telling her friends come to life, and she ...

  • Fatal Domain

    Travis Brock - 2

    When the past scratches its way into the present, it can leave deep scars. A series of cryptic clues leads Department of Defense redactor Travis Brock to suspect that a grim chapter from his past is not yet over. With the help of his eidetic memor...

  • Broker of Lies

    Travis Brock - 1

    The man who knows all our secrets has a secret of his own. When Travis Brock, a high-level Pentagon redactor with an eidetic memory, finds a clue to solving the tragic arson that took his wife from him, he risks everything to find the truth―and ...

  • Synapse

    Thirty years in the future, when AI is so advanced that humans live side by side with cognizant robots called Artificials, Kestrel Hathaway must come to terms not just with what machines know, but with what they believe. Soon after experiencing a ...

  • Every Wicked Man

    The Bowers Files - 11

    A criminal mastermind's chilling terrorist plot forces FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers to the brink in the latest thriller from bestselling novelist Steven James. When a senator's son takes his own life and posts the video live online, Agent Bow...

  • Every Deadly Kiss

    The Bowers Files - 10

    FBI special agent Patrick Bowers grapples with a baffling series of murders in Detroit -- and discovers a terror plot with roots that stretch back centuries. Called in by an ex-girlfriend to consult on a case, Patrick encounters the work of a kil...

  • Curse

    Blur Trilogy - 3

    As Daniel Byers prepares to attend a basketball camp before his senior year of high school, the terrifying blurs that’ve plagued him for the last nine months return. Dark images begin to haunt him -- creatures crawling from the deepest pits of h...

  • Every Crooked Path

    The Bowers Files - 9

    Who is the Piper? . . . Special Agent Patrick Bowers returns in an electrifying prequel to the Bowers Chess series from critically acclaimed, national bestselling novelist Steven James. A mysterious suicide and a series of abductions draw Pat...



  • Fury

    Blur Trilogy - 2

    The disturbing visions that helped Daniel Byers solve a deadly mystery have finally quieted, and the sixteen-year-old basketball star is looking forward to things settling back to normal. But when his father mysteriously disappears, Daniel realizes t...

  • Checkmate

    The Bowers Files - 8

    In Checkmate, critically acclaimed novelist Steven James offers a climactic chapter in his bestselling series, the Bowers Files. When a clandestine FBI facility is attacked, Special Agent Patrick Bowers is drawn into the vicious, ruthless story th...

  • Blur

    Blur Trilogy - 1

    The isolated town of Beldon, Wisconsin, is shocked when a high school freshman’s body is found in Lake Algonquin. Just like everyone in the community, sixteen-year-old Daniel Byers believes that Emily Jackson’s death was accidental. But at her fu...

  • Singularity

    A Jevin Banks Novel - 2

    When his friend is murdered, illusionist Jevin Banks is determined to find out what really happened. Drawn into a web of conspiracy and top-secret research on human consciousness, Jevin won't stop digging until the truth is revealed. Soon he uncovers...

  • The King

    The Bowers Files - 7

    FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has matched wits with some of the most violent serial killers in history--and one of them has never forgiven him.... Patrick Bowers has pursued the nation's fiercest serial killers--and now one elusive foe is bac...

  • Placebo

    A Jevin Banks Novel - 1

    While covertly investigating a controversial neurological research program, exposé filmmaker Jevin Banks is drawn into a far-reaching conspiracy involving one of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms. After giving up his career as an escape artis...

  • Opening Moves

    The Bowers Files - 6

    In The Bowers Files novels, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has stopped some of the most vicious serial killers ever imagined. Now, in the fifth exciting installment, author Steven James takes readers back to Bowers’s terrifying beginning. Milw...

  • Multiplication Made Easy

    Ask any teacher above the 4th grade what the one thing is students must know to be successful in math and the answer will be most likely be the same: math fact fluency. By the fourth and fifth grades students are generally proficient in addition and ...

  • Quest for Celestia

    A Reimagining of The Pilgrim's ProgressAfter a chance encounter with a man whom 16-year-old Kadin believes is a wizard, his life and health begin to deteriorate. Out of desperation he embarks on an epic journey to a land no one in his village believ...

  • Fluency and Comprehension

    Fluency and Comprehension is a quick and easy way to help beginning and struggling readers master fluency and comprehension in under ten minutes per day. Great for whole class instruction, as small group work or for one-on-one intervention. This is i...



  • The Queen

    The Bowers Files - 5

    While investigating a double homicide in an isolated northern Wisconsin town, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers uncovers a high-tech conspiracy that twists through long-buried Cold War secrets and targets present-day tensions in the Middle East. I...

  • The Bishop

    The Bowers Files - 4

    FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers's cutting-edge 21st-century geospatial investigative techniques and impeccable logic have helped him track some of the country's most grisly killers. But those skills are pushed to the limit in this new installment of...

  • Parent Helper

  • The Knight

    The Bowers Files - 3

    FBI criminologist Patrick Bowers is used to tracking dangerous psychopaths. This time a unique clue is left at the scene of a gruesome ritualistic murder -- one as unnerving as it is chillingly personal: a tape recording that seems to predict every m...

  • The Rook

    The Bowers Files - 2

    A series of baffling fires around San Diego has culminated at a top secret naval research facility. When Special Agent Patrick Bowers is called in to investigate, his unique ability to pinpoint the time, place, and spatial factors of any crime tells ...

  • The Pawn

    The Bowers Files - 1

    Special Agent Patrick Bowers had only met one man who made him truly afraid. Until now. When he's called to North Carolina to consult on the case of an area serial killer, he finds himself in a deadly game. Cunning and lethal, the killer is a...

  • Godiva and the Golden Dragon

    With the Royal Dragon banner following Harold Godwinsson, England enjoyed peace...until 1066. England suddenly found itself beset by enemies from across the sea. Harold of Wessex, Duke William of Normandy, and King Haraald of Norway: These pivotal ...

  • Swept Away

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Prepare to Be Swept Away . . . Indie award-winning author Steven James entrances readers as they sail the Caribbean aboard the renowned Joys of Love. Your paradise journey awaits with tantalizing cuisine, sultry massages, mysterious fortune- telling,...

Award-Winning Books by Steven James

The Bishop
2010 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Inspirational Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
2011 Christy Award -- Suspense
2011 INSPYs the Bloggers Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature -- Mystery/Thriller
Every Wicked Man
2019 Christy Award -- Suspense
The King
2014 INSPYs the Bloggers Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature -- Mystery/Thriller
The Knight
2010 INSPYs the Bloggers Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature -- Mystery/Thriller
The Queen
2012 Christian Book Award -- Fiction
2012 Christy Award -- Suspense
The Rook
2009 Christy Award -- Suspense


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Steven James has published 27 books.

The next book by Steven James, Too Cute Tales, will be published in February 2026.

The first book by Steven James, Godiva and the Golden Dragon, was published in June 2001.

Yes. Steven James has 4 series.
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